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Since humans dream every night, why do patients in analysis present their dreams in some hours and not in others? The author hypothesizes that the report of a dream implies that the ego has managed a new integration of superego-id contents which were previously inaccessible because of defense. Eight metapsychological hypotheses that attempt to conceptualize the meaning of dream reporting presented.